Education

In order to qualify for license renewal or reinstatement, every individual licensed as a broker of record, broker-salesperson or salesperson must satisfy at least ONE of the below CE requirements:

Completion of 12 credit hours of CE applicable to the license term (N.J.A.C. 11:5-12.4 (2012)).At least six of the twelve credits must be obtained in courses within the “core topics”. The six shall include at least 2 credit hours on ethics. The remainder can be electives.

Successful completion of one or more broker pre-licensure education courses (within the license term) as set forth in N.J.A.C. 11:5-2.1.

Salespersons initially licensed in the SECOND year of the NJ real estate license term shall not be required to fulfill any continuing education to renew their license upon the conclusion of that license term. (i.e., a licensee who obtains their license after July 1, 2012 will not be required to complete CE requirements to renew for the term beginning July 1, 2013).

Please note:

Salespersons initially licensed in the FIRST year of the NJ real estate license term WILL BE REQUIRED to complete CE requirements in order to renew their license for the next term (i.e., a licensee who obtains their license before July 1, 2012 will be required to complete CE requirements to renew their license for the term beginning July 1, 2013).

Please be aware that it will take approximately 10 business days for the confirmation of your completed continuing education to be transferred from the school to the testing vendor to the Real Estate Commission.

Core Topics

Real estate salespersons, broker-salespersons and brokers are required to complete 12 hours of CE per license term in order to renew their license for the next license term. See N.J.A.C. 11:5-12.3(a). At least six of the 12 hours must be in the following core topics, of which each topic except ethics must have an ethics component relating to the topic. The core topics are as follows. See N.J.A.C. 11:5-12.4(a)1-8 and 11:5-12.4(c):

The following are approved as topics for elective courses. See N.J.A.C. 11:5-12.13(a)1-9.

Commercial Real Estate

Property Management

Seasonal Rentals

Real Estate Sales Full Disclosure Act and Real Estate Timeshare Act

Financing

Land Use

Real Estate Valuation

Foreclosure and Short-Sale Transactions

Specific Aspects of Residential Real Estate Transactions

CE Waivers

Waivers from CE requirements may be granted either in whole or in part for:

Incapacitating illness

Active military duty

Emergency

Other substantial/unavoidable hardship (not including financial hardship, business conflicts or personal obligations)

Licensees granted a waiver from CE requirements (with the exception of those for active duty military service), will have to make up the waived core course(s) missed in the next license term in addition to all of the credits required for that license term as a condition of license renewal for the license term following when the waiver was issued. (For example, if six core credits were waived, a licensee will have to complete a total of 18 in the next license term.) See N.J.A.C. 11:5-12.5(f).

Any waived elective courses will not have to be completed by a real estate licensee. See N.J.A.C. 11:5-12.5(g).